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Opinion: Tech can’t cure the loneliness that it’s creates


Technology is often accused of causing loneliness. The US Surgeon General recently warned that tech can deepen isolation, increase fear of missing out, and reduce social interaction. Surveys frequently show that isolation among young people surges when their so

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Why this college student ended up on academic probation after using Grammarly

Marley Stevens posted a video on TikTok last semester that she described as a public service announcement to any college student. Her message: Don’t use grammar-checking software if your professor might run your paper through an AI-detection system. 

Stevens is a junior at the University of North Georgia, and she has been unusually public about what she calls a “debacle,” in which she was accus

Brands, your customers are OK with AI chatbots, but that doesn’t mean they want junky AI content

If you’re a brand on social media (and which brand isn’t?), you need to tread carefully when it comes to using AI across your social channels. That’s according to a new survey from social media analytics company Sprout Social, which reveals that consumers are more favorable to some types of AI use over others.

First the positive

Sprout Social’s survey found that a majority of consu

CEOs, what if you could turn your customers into shareholders? This fintech is making it happen

Stock rewards have obvious appeal to shoppers: Why not own a piece of the company where you’re spending money? It’s possible that those programs may become more common in the near future, as the company powering stock rewards programs recently won patent approval and is hoping to see them expand.

Apex Fintech Solutions, a self-described “fintech for fintechs,” which powers much of the behind-the-scenes technology and workflows for several popular companies in the space,

Why workers are leaving fossil fuel jobs — and what to do if you feel like ‘climate quitting’


Are you frustrated with your employer’s lack of commitment to sustainability? Maybe “climate quitting” is for you. Climate quitting means leaving your job due to concerns about your employer’s impact on the climate or because you want to work directly on addressing

11mo | The Next Web
Startup secures €7.6M for sand battery that can heat a small town


Last month, Finnish startup Polar Night Energy announced that it is building a giant sand battery capable of heating a town of 5,000 people for up to a month. That’s on a single charge.  Polar Night is constructing the sand batt

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Forget PowerPoint: This is the AI presentation app of the future

It’s tough to think of two words that seem more at odds with each other than “beautiful” and “presentation.” I mean, have you seen a PowerPoint slide deck lately?

That disconnect is something Mitch Grasso’s been grappling with for years. In fact, it wouldn’t be a stretch to describe it as motivating his life mission at this point—to achieve the impossible-seeming feat of turning mundane digital presentations into something both bea

What Is The Impact Of Having Zero Impression Google Ad Keywords/Ad Groups? via @sejournal, @navahf

Discover the difference between zero impressions and low search volume keywords on Google. Learn how to prepare and optimize your ad groups.

The post What Is The Impact Of Having Zero Impression Google Ad Keywords/Ad Groups? appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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TNW Podcast: Flying cars and invisibility shields; Svilen Rangelov on drones and Dronamics


Welcome to the new episode of the TNW Podcast — the show where we discuss the latest developments in the European technology ecosystem and feature interviews with some of the most interesting people in the industry. In today’s episode, Linnea and Andrii talk

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Silo AI launches Nordic LLM family to protect Europe’s linguistic diversity


Europe’s linguistic diversity has received a boost into the AI era with the launch of new LLMs for Nordic languages. Fittingly named Viking, the model family is the brainchild of Finnish startup Silo AI. The company claims to host Europe’s largest private AI la

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This startup detects heart disease using motion sensors in your phone


Health tech has a rocky history. For every story of the Apple Watch saving someone’s life, there’s a Theranos out there ruining it for everyone. Yet the sector marches on. We all want to be healthy and know more about our bodies —

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Jihokorejský tokamak KSTAR udržel 100 milionů °C plazma 48 sekund

Tokamak KSTAR v jihokorejském Tedžonu nedávno překonal svůj „osobní“ rekord. Vytvořil plazma o teplotě nitra Slunce a udržel ho po dobu 48 sekund. Je to významný úspěch, byť ve stínu čínského tokamaku EAST. Konečným cílem tokamaku KSTAR je udržet takové plazma 5 minut. http://www.osel.cz/13420-jihokorejsky-tokamak-kstar-udrzel-100-milionu-c-plazma-48-sekund.html

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Apple declares the iPhone 6 Plus ‘obsolete’ and says iPad Mini 4 is ‘vintage’

Time marches quickly for just about anyone. But in the technology world, it can positively gallop.

Apple has declared the iPhone 6 Plus to be “obsolete” technology, meaning it will no longer repair or service the device—and service providers are no longer able to order parts for the products.

The declaration for older technology comes roughly seven years after the company has stopped offering it at retail. The iPhone 6

How I’m filling the Twitter-size hole in my life

Back in early 2015, I hit a personal Twitter verbosity record by tweeting an average of 25 times a day. Last month, on the service now known as X, I posted a mere 49 times in total. No wonder I’m less engaged: Of the six people I tweeted with most often in 2016, only one shows up more than very occasionally nowadays—mostly to promote his projects elsewhere,

Slack claims victory as Microsoft will split Teams from Office

Facing antitrust concerns, Microsoft announced plans to sell its chat app Microsoft Teams separately from Microsoft Office, a victory for rival chat app Slack, which has complained that selling the two programs together constitutes an “illegal” practice by the company, Reuters reported Monday.

Teams was a

What’s happening at Amazon: AWS lays off hundreds as Fresh grocery stores ditch Just Walk Out tech

Some big changes are happening in Amazon stores, while Amazon Web Services (AWS) has axed more employees.

Amazon is ditching its Just Walk Out program, which allowed customers in Amazon Fresh stores to do just that: exit with their items, without ever checking out.

The technology sounds ideal, but the systems, which were expensive to install, were also riddled with errors. Instead of a traditional checkout line, it relied on a host of cameras and workers watching them, as

My Apple Watch went haywire and called 911

Earlier this week, I was just about to sit down to dinner when I glanced at my wrist and noticed that my Apple Watch was going absolutely haywire. The screen was furiously flittering among apps as if controlled by some invisible person who was pressing buttons at lightning speed. Within seconds, my Series 9 had somehow changed my daily fitness goals, sent a random Slack message to all my coworkers (“Hello!”), and, to my horror, was now calling 911. Which I was helpless to stop.

“911,

Sinatra sings Nirvana: Here’s why 200 music artists just signed an open letter critical of AI

It was only a matter of time before musicians joined writers, actors, and filmmakers in banding together against the threat AI poses on their art and livelihood. On Tuesday, nonp

10 highly rated companies with more than 600 open remote jobs

The best remote jobs are at companies that aren’t only open-minded about where you live but also great places to work, period! These well-known tech companies each have Glassdoor reviews of at least four stars and plenty of work-from-home jobs to fill.

Nvidia: 157 jobs

The longtime king of high-end graphics, Nvidia is also

New space mission aims to create solar eclipses on-demand with satellites


Days before a total solar eclipse sweeps across North America, scientists in Europe have revealed another plan to block out the sun. The audacious project — called Proba-3 — will align two spacecraft to produce artificial eclipses. By creating this complicated

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Mistral AI, Europe’s OpenAI rival, adds top LLM to Amazon Bedrock


Amazon Bedrock, the tech giant’s platform for building generative AI applications, has added Mistral Large, the latest and most advanced Large Language Model (LLM) of Mistral AI, to its service. The Paris-based startup released the model in February, boasting

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Quantinuum, Microsoft claim to have quieted quantum computing ‘noise’


Two of the leaders in quantum technologies, Quantinuum and Microsoft, today announced a breakthrough in reducing ‘noise’ that could mean quantum advantage is closer than previously thought. When it comes to quantum computing, noise refers to int

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Have a cool cleantech project? Jigar Shah has $400 billion to lend

Jigar Shah is in a race against time, his progress measured in part by a map on his office wall. Each point on the map represents a project financed by the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office, where Shah is the director. The 60 active LPO-financed initiatives include a factory for EV batteries or sustainable aviation fuel, a grid upgrade, and a next-gen geothermal plant.

Shah’s obscure office is now busy reviewing

Opera is now the first leading browser with built-in local LLMs


Opera now becomes the first major browser to offer built-in access to local AI models. Starting today, the Oslo-based company is introducing experimental support for 150 variants of local Large Language Models (LLMs), covering approximately 50 families. These

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Děsivý strašný zub

…aneb Kdo byl prvním vědecky popsaným tyranosauridem? http://www.osel.cz/13419-desivy-strasny-zub.html

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The new tech trends set to shape the smart cities of tomorrow


The World Bank estimates that by 2050 the global urban population will double in size, putting ever-increasing pressure on city streets, housing markets, infrastructure, government services, and the environment. Luckily, over the last few years, advancements in t

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Carpooling rebounds as BlaBlaCar raises €100M and reaches profitability


Carpooling’s resurgence continued today as France’s BlaBlaCar reached two big new milestones. The Paris-based trip-sharing service has raised a €100mn credit line and hit profitability over the last 24 months — its first full years in the black. The company plans to us

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AI is taking over your web browser. Here’s what you’ll love . . . and hate

Generative AI is coming to your web browser whether you want it or not.

Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Arc and other browsers are all trying to change how we interact with the web, using AI to boil down web articles and make browsing more efficient. As with the race to reinvent web search around AI, the hope is that you won’t have to load a dozen browser tabs and scrutinize each one t

Lstivá generativní inteligence GPT-4 je mnohem přesvědčivější než lidé

Experimenty s přesvědčováním mezi lidmi a mezi člověkem a generativní inteligencí nemilosrdně ukázaly, že tam kde lidé tragicky selhávají a nejsou schopni přesvědčit druhé, i když o nich mají základní demografické informace, generativní inteligence se stávají zázračnými mašinami na přesvědčování. Vymluvily by i tele z vola. http://www.osel.cz/13418-lstiva-generativni-inteligence-gpt-4-je-mnohem-presvedcivejsi-nez-lide.html

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#423 – Tulsi Gabbard: War, Politics, and the Military Industrial Complex

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Google Discontinues Translate Community Contribution Feature via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google discontinues Translate's Contribute feature, citing improvements in translation quality driven by advanced machine learning techniques.

The post Google Discontinues Translate Community Contribution Feature appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-discontinues-transl

Speeding ebikes are a new menace. Amsterdam wants to remote-control them


A few weeks back, Amsterdam announced it was trialling new technology that can automatically reduce ebike speed when riders enter certain parts of the city.   Predictably, the initiative sparked debate. On Reddit, some expressed concerns about dat

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Go 1 turns twelve

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UK, US strike landmark deal on AI safety testing


Following the recent approval of the EU’s risk-based AI Act, the UK has now partnered up with the US to co-establish testing procedures and guidelines on AI safety. As part of the transatlantic deal, the two countries will combine their capabilities and expert

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Artificial pancreas that pumps insulin into diabetes patients launches on NHS


In a potentially transformative move for healthcare, the NHS is rolling out an “artificial pancreas” for people suffering from type 1 diabetes. Known as the Hybrid Closed Loop (HCL) system, the artificial pancreas is a device that significantly automates the m

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Humans Vs. Generative AI: A Head-To-Head Ad Copy Content Test [Data Study]

Find out which is more effective: human copywriting or AI-generated ad copy. This study reveals insights on driving clicks and conversions.

The post Humans Vs. Generative AI: A Head-To-Head Ad Copy Content Test [Data Study] appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/humans-vs-machines-ad-cop

Are long context windows the end of RAG?

The home team is joined by Michael Foree, Stack Overflow’s director of data science and data platform, and occasional cohost Cassidy Williams, CTO at Contenda, for a conversation about long context windows, retrieval-augmented generation, and how Databricks’ new open LLM could change the game for developers. Plus: How will FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s sentence of 25 years in prison reverberate in the blockchain and crypto spaces? https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/04/02/are-long-context-windo

PPC Lead Gen Blueprint: Google Ads Strategy That Increases Leads via @sejournal, @hethr_campbell

Looking to learn the secrets to lead generation success?  Want to know what critical mistakes to avoid when building your paid ad strategy? We’ve got you covered. On April 17, we’re teaming up with Redesign for a live presentation to give you the proven PPC blueprint to boost your leads.  Sign up to discover Redesign’s time-tested Google Ads strategies that skyrocket leads. You’ll get an exclusive look into their launch process, keyword selection, ad copy, and bidding strategies.  Key takeawa

AI has arrived in Hollywood. It’s a lot more boring than you might think

The new horror film Late Night with the Devil hit theaters late last month amid a lot of really good buzz. It has a 96% on Rotten Tomatoes and has broken box office records for its distributor, IFC Films. It seemed poised to become the indie movie success s

What do some of the most successful video games have in common? They’re all catnip for TikTok

“Lifelike realism”—in the world of video games, at least—has long referred to audiovisual fidelity. The more pixels a game has, the faster its frame rates, the more encompassing its sound, the more “real” it is. But some of the best new games are creating experiences for players that feel lifelike in a different way: by mirroring the vastness and complexity of daily life.

Yes, the Manhattan Bridge gleams recognizably in the East River dawn in

Záhadné škytání supermasivní černé díry vyvolává obíhající malá černá díra

Supermasivní černá díra chytla zvláštní škytavku. Pozoruhodné vysvětlení počítá se sežráním neopatrné hvězdy a obíháním druhé, mnohem menší černé díry, která párá akreční disk supermasivního partnera dvakrát při každém oběhu. Zřejmě jsme objevili systém dvou dramaticky různých černých děr. http://www.osel.cz/13416-zahadne-skytani-supermasivni-cerne-diry-vyvolava-obihajici-mala-cerna-dira.html

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Vědci zkřížili člověka se želvuškou

Želvušky jsou nejdrsnější živočichové, jaké známe. Vydrží věci, které by nás zabily, kdybychom na ně déle mysleli. Co kdybychom si jejich triky vypůjčili a zapracovali na vlastní odolnosti? Mezinárodní výzkumný tým to udělal a zjistil, že speciální ochranné proteiny želvušek fungují v lidských buňkách podobně a chrání je před strastmi okolního prostředí. Je to apríl? http://www.osel.cz/13417-vedci-zkrizili-cloveka-se-zelvuskou.html

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Green Deal mění kurs

Evropa konečně upouští od podpory občasných zdrojů energie a přiklání se k tradici a stabilitě. http://www.osel.cz/13415-green-deal-meni-kurs.html

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